This week, 8 Mavericks gathered for our first 10X Venture Scaling Workshop.
8 people. 8 questions. Each answered independently, then shared for collective insight.
What emerged was strategy in motion. Acceleration made real. Quantum Surfing applied directly to your venture.
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Why 10X Thinking Changes Everything
Dr. Ben Hardy has spent years studying what he calls “the science of scaling”—and he’s uncovered something most business schools never teach.
We’re taught growth. Growth is incremental. It’s “let me take stock of where I am, what are my assets and resources, and project forward.”
Scaling is the opposite.
Scaling means imagining an impossible future—then shaping your present to be a miniature version of that future.
Here’s the distinction that matters: When you set a 10X goal (not 2X, not 30% growth—10X), something remarkable happens.
Almost nothing can get you there.
That sounds like bad news. It’s actually the point.
A 10X goal forces you to filter out 99% of options. It eliminates the noise. It reveals the few pathways—what Ben calls the “power law”—that can actually scale.
Growth thinking asks: “What more can I do?”
Scale thinking asks: “What must I eliminate?”
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Effort Can Be a Hiding Place
Last week I wrote about how effort can be a hiding place. The 10X workshop put that into practice.
When you’re grinding on 20 different tactics, you feel productive. You’re busy. But busy isn’t scaling.
One participant had been pouring hours into social media. When she asked whether it was actually moving her toward her 10X goal, the answer was clear: “It’s not generating anything.” Her decision? “I’m done. I’m out.” Instead, she committed to 30 calls a day—direct outreach to people who could actually become clients. Another participant called her his hero for the day. That’s raising the floor.
Another realized that trying to scale everything in her brick-and-mortar business meant scaling nothing. She chose membership as her singular focus—because stable membership would free her to step back from day-to-day operations and pursue the bigger vision.
Ben Hardy puts it this way: “Strategy is more about what you don’t do than about what you do.”
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The Workshop Format
We moved through 8 reflections:
1. What’s your impossible goal?
2. If someone invested $1M+ in your business right now, how would you use it?
3. What’s your 10X leap?
4. What’s your singular focus to drive 10X?
5. What will you eliminate?
6. What are the characteristics of future you who has achieved this?
7. What state changes are you adopting today?
8. What experiment will you launch this week?
Each question built on the last. Each share sparked something new for someone else.
This is what a mastermind looks like when everyone is committed to impossible goals—and willing to let go of what won’t scale.
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Quantum Surfing + The Science of Scaling
Here’s where these two frameworks converge:
Ben Hardy advocates using powerful goals to reshape our present. The future shapes the system—including who we become.
Quantum Surfing teaches that the gap between here and there isn’t time or resources. It’s energetic.
When I change my energy, I change my state, and the gap collapses. That’s what I call a state change.
State change is the Quantum Surfing secret. It’s not about working harder or acquiring more resources before you can become your 10X self. It’s about shifting your energy now—stepping into the identity of the person who has already achieved the goal.
In the workshop, participants described their future 10X selves: operating from calm and serenity. Breathing before speaking. No longer putting everyone else first. Laughing more. Not being a perfectionist. These aren’t soft goals—they’re the energetic foundation that makes everything else possible.
The 10X workshop combines both frameworks: Define the impossible goal (Ben’s science). Then embody the person who has already achieved it (Quantum Surfing). From that place, the “how” becomes obvious—and most of the effort falls away.
80% energy and intention. 20% inspired action.
That’s not woo. That’s the most efficient path to scale.
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The Next 10X Workshop: July 9
We’re hosting these workshops every four months—a periodic reflection and reshaping for Mavericks who are serious about scaling.
If you’re building a venture and want to stop grinding toward incremental goals, this is your invitation.
Join the Mavericks Community to get access to the July 9 workshop, plus our monthly gatherings, the Lucky Playlist, and a network of founders who believe in impossible goals. LINK
Because 10X results rarely require 10X grind.
They require 10X clarity.
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